Dude I bring my own pop and a small snack (used to bring in beer). You have a wife with a purse!, you should be bringing in everything you can. They know people do it and don't really care as long as you don't leave a mess.

Fool.

Criminals in this town used to believe in things...honor, respect."I heard your dog is sick, so bought you this shovel"

FUDU wrote:Dude I bring my own pop and a small snack (used to bring in beer). You have a wife with a purse!, you should be bringing in everything you can. They know people do it and don't really care as long as you don't leave a mess.

Fool.

How the fuck am I going to get popcorn and drinks into a small purse that barely holds a billfold, cellphone, and car keys? (and her pistol)

Occupy Cleveland has done a few other things, all minor stuff, but THEY PUSHED THE FREAKING BUTTON! I'm real sorry about the rest of the idealists getting tarred by this... But they, the ones I disagree with 100% but breaking no law, have to work within the system.

Oh and Peeks they lost their lease on some warehouse space in Cleveland cuz the lease dictated "dry" premises. Maybe they had some hackety sack going on in thar?

"When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience."

I sympathized (still do, to an extent) with the complaints brought forward by the Occupy Movement. Income inequality, corporate influence/power in and of gov't bothers me. However, their "solutions" (such as they existed at all) were pretty socialist (really "socialism," not what the GOP calls socialist) and a bit Militant. I'm a liberal, not hard socialist.

That said, I saw file footage of one of the would-be bombers calling himself an "anacho-communist." Uhhhh, you can be an anarchist or you can be a communist. You CANNOT be both.

A recent editorial did a pretty good job of explaining "corporate personhood" in the context of Nancy Pelosi's silly proposed constitutional amendment. In part....

The Supreme Court and U.S. law have long held that Americans do not surrender the rights they enjoy individually when they act in association with one another. This has been a fundamental feature of U.S. law since the very beginning, and even before that, inasmuch as the notion that collective action does not deprive us of our rights goes back into the Common Law as well. U.S. court cases going back to the 18th century recognize that fact, as does federal statute: 1 U.S.C. §1 reads in part: “the words ‘person’ and ‘whoever’ include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals.”

Strange things give the Left the heebie-jeebies, and “corporate personhood” seems like a strange thing. But “corporate personhood” is simply the notion that incorporated groups — businesses, political parties, unions, nonprofits, etc. — are single entities under the law. One would think that the Left would find this convenient: If Monsanto is not a “person” under the law, it cannot be regulated, taxed, sued, or fined, because for the purposes of the law it does not exist. Without the ability to treat enterprises as a single legal entity, there would be no redress for damages caused by a defective GM vehicle except to file claims against each individual owner of the 1.57 billion shares of GM stock outstanding.

But if GM and Monsanto can be sued, then they can defend themselves from suits. If they can be taxed on their property, then they can own property. If they have liabilities under contracts, then they have rights under contracts, too. If they have liabilities under the law, then they have rights under the law.

We are permitted to act in association with others...as corporations, unions, non-profits or clubs...including joining forces to advocate for or against political candidates. Recall that Citizens United was about banning an independently-produced film about Hillary Clinton. If you can ban films, you can ban books and magazine articles and billboards and blog posts. As the op-ed asks, one wonders which part of the 1st amendment phrase "Congress shall make no law..." Pelosi doesn't understand.

Edit: In hindsight I guess I should say..."forget that last sentence". Because Pelosi is not proposing legislation that would fly in the face of the constitution. She is at least proposing the diminishment of the 1st Amendment in the proper way...by amending the constitution. That makes it no less brazen, radical, freedom-limiting or ill-advised, but it does make it more proper, as far as I can see.

"I believe it is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting." H.L. Mencken

See..... I don't have big money to bribe politicians to get my way. I have to hope that the people spending will be so merciful as to say "toss some crumbs to the little guy". So my "free speech" is drowned out while the big guys on the both sides flood the airwaves with half-truths and out right lies.

And I agree with Justice Stevens who said "Money is property, not speech". (money equaling speech is the dumbest shit since the Pet Rock)

But hey, who really gives a shit, right? If you ain't got money, you don't really matter, these politicians ain't paid to work for you. Just go pound sand and be happy you still have a few rights left. WE DON'T GOTTA QUARTER TROOPS IS EPIC WIN! Fuck......

But this campaign, relatively speaking, will not be fierce or hotly contested. Instead it'll be disappointing, embarrassing, and over very quickly, like a hand job in a Bangkok bathhouse. And everybody knows it. It's just impossible to take Mitt Romney seriously as a presidential candidate. Even the news reporters who are paid to drum up dramatic undertones are having a hard time selling Romney as half of a titanic title bout.

Then there's one more thing – Obama versus Romney is the worst reality show on TV since the Tila Tequila days. The characters are terrible, there's no suspense, and the biggest thing is, it lacks both spontaneity and a gross-out factor. In Reality TV, if you don't have really sexy half-naked young people scheming against each other over campfires in the Cook Islands, you need to have grown men eating millipedes or chicks in bikinis drinking donkey semen. And if you don't have that, you really need Sarah Palin.

So yesterday I was watching how the occupy protesters in Chicago for the NATO convention won by "closing down" the Boeing Corporate HQ for the day. The occupiers announced they were going to protest there so Boeing told their Corp HQ staff to go ahead and work from home that day.

The Occupy spokeswoman slash granola girl was so happy and proclaimed that "they shut down Boeing for the day so that no military planes and military weapons were being produced today by Boeing". I wonder if any one had the heart to tell her that they don't make any of that stuff in the downtown Chicago HQ office building and that the factories were unaffected by the HQ staff working from home?

YahooFanChicago wrote:So yesterday I was watching how the occupy protesters in Chicago for the NATO convention won by "closing down" the Boeing Corporate HQ for the day. The occupiers announced they were going to protest there so Boeing told their Corp HQ staff to go ahead and work from home that day.

The Occupy spokeswoman slash granola girl was so happy and proclaimed that "they shut down Boeing for the day so that no military planes and military weapons were being produced today by Boeing". I wonder if any one had the heart to tell her that they don't make any of that stuff in the downtown Chicago HQ office building and that the factories were unaffected by the HQ staff working from home?

Swerb wrote:Go start a blog if you want to tell the world your incomprehendible ramblings.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I have a big arm and can throw the ball pretty damn far...... maybe even over those moutains. The Browns should sign me, i'll let you all in locker room to drink beer. Then we can all go out the parking lot to watch me do motorcycle stunts.

Boeing has a large defense and security (essentially military and space products) division that is headquartered out of St Louis. It is a substantial business in terms of scale for Boeing.

Just very funny that you could tell by this woman's comments that she really believed that those products were manufactured in the Chicago highrise office building. They said she was the "spokeswoman" but I don't know if that is an official position for the Occupy movement of not.

In reality this didn't impact Boeing's operations at all...biggest impact of that part of the protest was just reducing the revenue and profits of the local coffee shops and local restaurants since none of the Boeing HQ staff was in the HQ office that day.

CDT, I wouldn't fuck with OJ. We all know Alex Jones and his cult protect their own. Next thing you know Ron Paul and OJ are going to be leader thousands of truthers in a raid on your place, armed only with chain saws and machetes.

Chainsaws and machetes are no match for bullets. Truthers might be my favorite people to interact with on the internet. Sometimes I get bored and go fuck with them on YouTube. MoxNews channel is the best, all Ron Paul people and Truthers. They're already getting the excuses ready for why Paul will not be the nominee. Massive voter fraud or the Evil NWO/Illuminati/Zionists AKA "the Joooooooos" seem to be the most popular theories.

And don't ever call Paul racist, because they'll tell you " HE DIDN'T WRITE THOSE THINGS!!!!!"